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So where is my WinModem driver?
by xutopia 14y ago
So where is my WinModem driver?
- lucian1900 14y agoYou must have misread. If one has enough info about nvidia hardware in order to make a driver for nvidia hardware, the same info is not enough to make your own nvidia hardware clones.
- wpietri 14y agoSounds like plenty to make drivers for your knockoff hardware, though.
- marshray 14y agoWhy would you want to make hardware which is compatible with open source Nvidia drivers?
- joezydeco 14y agoYou sure about that? Read up about ghost-shifts in semiconductor fabs. Bunnie tells a bit of the tale in his story about counterfeit SD cards: "Very low serial numbers, like very low MAC ID addresses, are a hallmark of the “ghost shift”, i.e. the shift that happens very late at night when a rouge worker enters the factory and runs the production machine off the books" http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
- geon 14y agoIf you can run the hardware manufacturing off the books, I don't see how access to the driver source code would help. You would just ship the official binaries.
- joezydeco 14y agoThe point was that you don't need to know anything about the driver or hardware to make clones. There are other ways.
- dredmorbius 14y agoWhich continues to moot the relevant point: Nvidia are withholding necessary software specs which not only aren't useful in reengineering their hardware, but which fail to protect against fully independent attacks (ghost shift manufacture) which at least allow duplication of current physical product if not producing a superior hardware product.